Say hello to Sea Hunter . That ’s the new name for DARPA ’s autonomous combat ship , which is designed to seek - and - destory submarines without a crowd aboard .
The ship used to be call ACTUV before it got its new name on Thursday in Portland , Oregon . We ’ll accept that Sea Hunter go much better than ACTUV — which stick out for Anti - Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel — but it does sound a bit like something out of a 1980s movie , does n’t it ?
Anyhow , the entirely new socio-economic class of ship is considered to be a plot change feature film in naval warfare : It is unmanned , has autonomous navigational capabilities and can be control safely in all weather condition and traffic condition , day or night . telling .
The remotely fly 130 - foot matching - screw trimaran is now quick for unresolved - water system examination . It ’ll have to prove it ’s able to cut through thou of statute mile over the open seas for months at a fourth dimension with nobody on board . And at some point , one assumes , it ’ll also have to prove that in can live up to its name .
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